Supreme Court Weighs Immigrants’ Rights to Have Detention Reviewed
Amid a nationwide surge in immigration arrests spearheaded by the Trump administration, the Supreme Court weighed on Tuesday whether immigrants facing deportation are entitled to have their detentions, which can stretch for years, reviewed by a judge.
The justices were considering whether immigrants fighting deportation or applying for asylum in the United States are entitled to periodic hearings before a judge to decide whether they can be released on bond while their cases make their way through the nation’s clogged immigration courts.
Lawyers for the immigrants argue that the government’s practice of keeping immigrants in jail-like detention facilities indefinitely, without independent reviews of whether there are grounds for keeping them there, violates their due process rights. . .